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Recent Examples of sterilize
Despite some complaints, a plan is currently in place to temporarily sterilize a portion of the animals to see if that will help control the overall population.
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Michael Nied, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The pink dusting will differentiate sterilized from non-sterilized mosquitoes when they’re collected as samples.
—Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
And while some modules up there do need to be sterilized, keeping some beneficial microbes alive could be achieved by designing future spacecraft in a way that accounts for how the microbes spread.
—Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2025
To address the overpopulation problem, county officials have approved new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
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Michael Nied, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The pink dusting will differentiate sterilized from non-sterilized mosquitoes when they’re collected as samples.
—Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
And while some modules up there do need to be sterilized, keeping some beneficial microbes alive could be achieved by designing future spacecraft in a way that accounts for how the microbes spread.
—Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2025
To address the overpopulation problem, county officials have approved new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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Airlines have been proactively altering their schedules, partly by canceling some flights in and out of Newark, to address the current limitations at the airfield.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Excess fat – particularly the tissue that surrounds the internal organs – is metabolically active, producing inflammatory molecules, altering hormone levels and impairing insulin signaling.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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The Rockets’ waves of athletic defenders and blitzing schemes have neutered the head of the snake for the Warriors.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Doing that enabled Russia to make its political demands—neutering the Ukrainian state through caps on the size of its army and changing its constitution—a precondition to peace.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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The victims are all male, the corpses all castrated, and each crime scene is signed with lines of poetry by the Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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She was castrated and now lives with us.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Women in these relationships were cast as disruptors of traditional gender roles, while men in these relationships were portrayed as emasculated.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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Adrift and emasculated, Stan is less a patriarch than the defeated captain of a sinking ship, drowning in his futility.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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The network has put together a focus group to figure out how to fix the issue.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Lead Sensei wants to be known as the product that fixes businesses and sets them up for long-term success.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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